ietf-nntp Section 4 - inactivity autologout timer duration

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Mon Jul 24 10:55:15 PDT 2000


David Riley wrote:
> 
> Section 4 states:
>             A NNTP server MAY have an inactivity autologout timer. Such a
>             timer MUST be of at least three minutes duration.  The receipt
>             of any command from the client during that interval SHOULD
>             suffice to reset the autologout timer.  When the timer
>             expires, the server should close the TCP connection without
>             sending any response to the client.
> 
> Is there any particular reason that the timer duration MUST be at least
> three minutes?  It seems like an unnecessary statement which limits the
> configurability of servers.

Yes, there was a desire to see that servers would not have autologout settings
that would be so short that a slow client could not detect it.



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